Issue: RLR Volume III Issue I

Nanotech Patentability Issues in India

The world of nanotechnology opened its eyes to the world in 1959, when Caltech physicist Richard Feynman painted a vision of the future of science. In a talk titled “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” Feynman hypothesized that atoms and molecules could be manipulated like building blocks.[i] The first “proof-of-principle” that atoms could be …

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Growth of A Digital First Sale Doctrine – An Assessment of US and Indian Laws

With the entire world moving towards digitization of information, the scope and applicability of different principles encompassed within copyright law have come into question. One such principle is that of Copyright Exhaustion, also referred to as the First Sale Doctrine in the US. In the light of the ReDigi case decided in 2012, the possible …

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Age of Consent: Analyses of Redefined Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Compatibility of Laws

Abstract This paper deals with the age of consent laws around the globe and the lack of coherency in the Indian laws with regard to the same. The ambiguity around age of consent has catalysed the tussle between the paternalistic society defining contours of sexuality and the emerging liberal society propounding freedom of sexuality. Historically …

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Violation of Net Neutrality in India: analyzing the mistaken nemesis of the free speech

ABSTRACT The agencies like Nasscom and various campaigns, driving the vox populi in India, have shaped a perception that violation of net neutrality unavoidably infringes the right to free speech. Using the examples of net neutrality (violations), the present paper argues that this approach is fallacious.  The intricate relation between the two would have to …

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